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Fengqing Li, Deep Narayan Shah, Steffen U. Pauls, Xiaodong Qu, Qinghua Cai and Ram Devi Tachamo Shah
Climate warming threatens biodiversity at global, regional and local levels by causing irreversible changes to species populations and biological communities. The Himalayan region is highly vulnerable to climate warming. This calls for efficient environm...
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Chen Yu, Chao Li, Tao Wang, Min Zhang and Jun Xu
Shallow lakes are highly vulnerable to damages caused by human activities and warming trends. To assess whether and how community structures of phytoplankton and nitrogen uptake respond to the combined effects of elevated temperature and eutrophication, ...
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Ioanna Skoufali and Alessandra Battisti
The present study is based on the assumption that the urban heat island (UHI) mitigation appears compelling and urgent in dense cities. To the above thematic area, recent redevelopmental interventions of open space for the microclimatic improvement and t...
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Yingbin Deng, Yingwei Yan, Yichun Xie, Jianhui Xu, Hao Jiang, Renrong Chen and Runnan Tan
Walking is one of the most commonly promoted traveling methods and is garnering increasing attention. Many indices/scores have been developed by scholars to measure the walkability in a local community. However, most existing walking indices/scores invol...
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Safdar Ali, DoHyeun Kim
In the last couple of years, energy management in the building environment has been a topic of interest to the research community. A number of renowned methods exist in the literature for energy management in buildings, but the trade-off between occupant...
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Abrham Belay, Teferi Demissie, John W. Recha, Christopher Oludhe, Philip M. Osano, Lydia A. Olaka, Dawit Solomon and Zerihun Berhane
This study investigated the trends and variability of seasonal and annual rainfall and temperature data over southern Ethiopia using time series analysis for the period 1983?2016. Standard Anomaly Index (SAI), Coefficient of Variation (CV), Precipitation...
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Samain Sabrin, Maryam Karimi and Rouzbeh Nazari
Extreme heat events at urban centers in combination with air pollution pose a serious risk to human health. Among these are financially distressed cities and neighborhoods that are facing enormous challenges without the scientific and technical capacity ...
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Hua Zhou, Yang Luo, Guang Zhou, Jian Yu, Sher Shah, Shengwang Meng and Qijing Liu
Subtropical forest productivity is significantly affected by both natural disturbances (local and regional climate changes) and anthropogenic activities (harvesting and planting). Monthly measures of forest aboveground productivity from natural forests (...
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Zhaojiang Hou, Yuan Jiang, Qi Liu, Yulu Tian, Kejian He and Lan Fu
The phytoplankton community in the river is closely related to the location of the river and the impact of human activities. To summarize the patterns of phytoplankton community changes in rivers and to analyze the reasons for these patterns and differen...
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Zhaojiang Hou, Yuan Jiang, Qi Liu, Yulu Tian, Kejian He and Lan Fu
The phytoplankton community in the river is closely related to the location of the river and the impact of human activities. To summarize the patterns of phytoplankton community changes in rivers and to analyze the reasons for these patterns and differen...
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Tommaso Barbieri, Francesca Despini and Sergio Teggi
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, namely urban areas where the atmospheric temperature is significantly higher than in the surrounding rural areas, is currently a very well-known topic both in the scientific community and in public debates. Growing...
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Bo Wang, Lingxi Luo, Liyong Mei and Hui Zeng
The Danjiangkou Reservoir supplies drinking water to most residents in northern China. However, signs of eutrophication have been observed in the inlet tributaries of the reservoir, including the Shending River backwater. This research used data from the...
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Souleymane Fall, Kapo Coulibaly, Joseph Quansah and Gamal El Afandi
Urban heat vulnerability varies within and across cities, necessitating detailed studies to understand diverse populations? specific vulnerabilities. This research assessed urban heat vulnerability at block group level in three Alabama cities: Birmingham...
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Inayat Ur Rahman, Aftab Afzal, Zafar Iqbal, Eduardo Soares Calixto, Jawaher Alkahtani, Mona S. Alwahibi, Niaz Ali, Rukhsana Kausar, Uzma Khan and Rainer W. Bussmann
The current research was carried out to characterize the phytosociology of the forests of one of Pakistan?s most valuable tree species (Deodar) across its native range. In this context, our main hypothesis was that, along the altitudinal gradient, we wou...
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Ahmed E. Alprol, Mohamed Ashour, Abdallah Tageldein Mansour, Othman M. Alzahrani, Samy F. Mahmoud and Samiha M. Gharib
This study aims to investigate the abundance, community, and structure of phytoplankton, physicochemical parameters, and some eutrophication state indices, to estimate the water quality of eight selected beaches along the Alexandria Coast, in the southea...
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Valentinus Roby Hananto,I Gusti Ngurah Alit Widana Putra
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In developing countries where population grows rapidly, air pollution has been a serious issue for the public health. Among various pollutants, ?ne particulate matters (PM2.5) is associated with distinct serious health problems, e.g., asthma, cancer, car...
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Myoung-Jin Um, Mun Mo Kim, Yeonjoo Kim and Daeryong Park
Severe droughts have occurred in East Asia; however, observational hydroclimate data that covers the entire region is lacking. The objective of this study is to investigate drought assessment in East Asia. This study estimated three drought indices by ge...
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Wenxi Zhao, Yanying Li, Yongjie Jiao, Bin Zhou, Rolf D. Vogt, Honglei Liu, Min Ji, Zhe Ma, Anding Li, Beihai Zhou and Yaping Xu
This study assesses spatial and temporal variation in environmental variables in relation to phytoplankton community size and composition in a typically eutrophic river reservoir (Hai River, northern China). The aim is to identify environmental parameter...
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Wenxi Zhao, Yanying Li, Yongjie Jiao, Bin Zhou, Rolf D. Vogt, Honglei Liu, Min Ji, Zhe Ma, Anding Li, Beihai Zhou, Yaping Xu
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This study assesses spatial and temporal variation in environmental variables in relation to phytoplankton community size and composition in a typically eutrophic river reservoir (Hai River, northern China). The aim is to identify environmental parameter...
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Wang Tian, Huayong Zhang, Lei Zhao, Yuanwu Xiong, Hai Huang
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The stability of phytoplankton biomass is important in maintaining the health of an aquatic ecosystem. In this study, the main environmental factors and phytoplankton biomass were investigated monthly from May 2011 to April 2013 in a eutrophic lake. The ...
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